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Hypoxia – All in one media player – 25 copies to be won!


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I refuse to use the native media players on my BlackBerry. They function well, but there are a few reasons I eschew them. One major gripe for me is having to use a different app for each type of media I want to play. I have tried a few different apps over the last while, trying to find a better fit for my needs, and have found Flipside to be a great music alternative, and I’m currently using Good Video Browser for my vids. The problem is the same though, I still need a different app for each type of media. Hypoxia aims to solve that problem, giving me a one-stop shop for all my media needs and putting all of the media on my device within easy reach. No more having to exit out of my music player to look at pics I have taken. The UI is simple and clean, and a fair number of options are available within the app, including the increasingly popular ability to tweet what I’m listening to. One very cool feature is the ability to stream my media to/from my PC (uses a separate server program, available from their website) allowing me to access my entire music and video library right on my device. The developer has also integrated notifications into the app, allowing you to preview incoming emails, SMS, etc without ever having to leave the application, so you can decide if you want to answer that text from your wife or wait until the song is done. The most exciting thing about this app for me is that it is fully skinnable. Those who want to can create their own skins for the app, allowing a huge customization option for those out there who feel the need to make everything unique to themselves. Available in the CB store for $7.99 for multiple devices.

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Vimeo Spreads the HTML5 Love With Web-Native Video Player


Video sharing site Vimeo has taken the HTML5 plunge one step further with a brand new “universal” embeddable player aimed at mobile devices like the iPhone or the iPad.

Vimeo’s new “Universal Player” is actually capable of serving several different kinds of video formats, but it uses a script to check the browser’s video capabilities. Depending on what the browser can handle, Vimeo may display an HTML5 player, a Flash player or a platform-native player. For users, the playback experience and user interface are the same, regardless of the player being used.

The new embed code, now the default throughout the whole Vimeo site, still serves Flash to desktop browsers, reserving the native options for iPad and iPhone users. But eventually, Vimeo plans to let desktop users in on the HTML5 fun — including perhaps serving WebM videos to Firefox, Chrome and Opera users.

So, if you’re reading this post on an iPad or an iPhone, this movie will launch in a native player wrapped inside the browser’s skin:

WORDS from Everynone on Vimeo.

Interest in HTML5 video is reaching a fever pitch. It’s being fueled mostly by the iPad and other mobile browsing devices that can’t play Flash. Also, the recent launch of the new WebM video format, and the HTML5 video capabilities being built into the latest browser releases have publishers and video services exploring non-Flash alternatives for their viewers.

Vimeo’s new player builds on the HTML5 video player the company first launched as a beta project back in January. But the rapid growth of HTML5 video on the web has urged Vimeo to push this new player to the fore. Other video sites, most notably YouTube, have also launched their own site-wide non-Flash experiences in the last few months. But in most cases the only way to use the native web video players is to visit the actual website. Vimeo is the first to offer an embeddable native player by default.

Despite the new browser sniffing code that lurks behind the new embedding methods, we didn’t notice any significant speed difference from the old code, though of course on mobile devices restricted bandwidth and does make for somewhat choppier video playback.

If you’d like to start using the new player, just head over to Vimeo and grab some embed code and drop into your site. Visit the page with a mobile device and you’ll see the new player.

If you’ve got older Vimeo embed code on your site you’ll need to upgrade it, but fortunately Vimeo is offering a handy JavaScript tool that can do the upgrade with a single click. See the Vimeo blog post for more details. For those of you who don’t want to bother with upgrading old code, fear not, the old code will continue to work just fine. It will just serve up the Vimeo Flash Player.

Indeed there are several reasons you might not want to use Vimeo’s new code, the most troublesome being that it uses an HTML iframe to load the player. Since many popular publishing platforms and social networks don’t allow iframes, you may want to stick with the older code. The new player also got off to a bumpy start, some videos we tested worked just fine on our iPhone, others threw various errors. Thankfully, most of the bugs appear to have been solved since the initial announcement Tuesday.

If you’ve been wanting to take advantage of HTML5 video, but still want the ease of uploading that comes from using a video sharing service, Vimeo is currently your best bet. Look for other services to follow suit in the near future.

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Adobe Announces Flash Player 10.1 For Mobile Partners


What does this mean to us? Good things and soon! Companies like HBO, CNET.com, Sony Pictures, USA Network etc… have begun optimizing their content for mobile devices thanks the Adobe and with that soon. As they will be designed for Android 2.2 aka “Froyo” and up, this is a huge step in the right direction for Android users everywhere and 10 steps in the wrong direction for Apple. Go ahead and check out the official press release and see for yourself what this means.

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doubleTwist media player adding widgets to their Android app


DoubleTwist posted on Twitter tonight a preview of upcoming widgets for their Android media player. DoubleTwist is already an excellent choice for audio and video playing on the Android platform, integrating well with their desktop media-syncing applications available for Mac and PC. These new widgets are certainly icing on the cake though. Shiny, beautiful icing.

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Rumored Samsung Android Media Player to Be Called Galaxy Touch?


Remember that could-be Android-based media player listed as a Samsung device? The Samsung YP-MB2 looked to be a mobile internet device with all the trappings of the Samsung Galaxy S, and it looks like that just might be the case. The device is now rumored to be coming to market as the Samsung Galaxy Touch, as the line of Galaxy Android phones and devices grows.

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What you should be getting is what amounts to a Galaxy S sans phone connectivity, very much like the iPod Touch in relation to the iPhone. Throw in Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and you have a little family of devices that almost mirrors that of Apple’s. If only a company that didn’t use the TouchWiz interface had beat them to it…

The Samsung Galaxy Touch is most likely dropping in August for around $330.

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Adobe knocks Apple for serving up outdated Flash Player


Adobe dinged Apple Wednesday for failing to update the Flash Player properly when releasing the Mac OS X 10.6.4 update.




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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Arrives


After spending many months on development and beta testing, Adobe has released the latest version of its Flash Player.

You can download Flash Player 10.1 for Mac, Windows and Linux at Adobe’s website. You’ll need to shut down all of your browsers while it installs. There’s a version of Flash Player 10.1 coming for Android, but it won’t be ready until later this summer. A beta version is available in the Android Marketplace if you want to test it out.

This release is significant for a number of reasons. Most of all, the underlying code has been largely re-written to address the platform’s key shortcomings. Anyone who follows the news knows Flash Player has been roundly criticized lately for its performance problems, its battery-sucking tendencies and its security issues. There’s no Flash allowed on iPads and iPhones for these reasons, and Apple (along with others like Mozilla and Opera) is calling for an end to the plug-in’s dominance as a video delivery mechanism on the web.

Microsoft’s competing Silverlight plug-in for video is winning hearts and minds, reaching 60% penetration on web-connected PCs this spring. Adobe says over 95% of web-connected PCs have Flash Player installed.

Persons of great influence are turning their backs on Flash, but Adobe is hoping this update will spark an attitude change. It has rolled in dozens of improvements which directly address the issues of performance, security and power consumption.

As we first saw in the beta release, the runtime has been re-written to consume less system memory, and Flash Player will automatically shut off if it detects that memory is running low. It can also prioritize the amount of processing power being used by each instance of Flash Player that’s running. So if you have several browser tabs open with Flash content displayed in each tab, the movie you’re watching right now will stay running at full power while the idle instances are dialed back or shut off.

These enhancements should prevent nasty problems like Flash Player causing your browser to crash or your entire OS to freeze, which is usually the result of more Flash than your computer can handle at once — something netbook owners know all too well. Mac users will also notice a significant improvement, as the Flash team says it has paid particular attention to Mac OS X and Safari issues in this release.

On the security front, the new Flash Player will fully honor the rules of your browser’s private browsing mode by not caching any data on the local system while private browsing is enabled.

There are a raft of video improvements — we get hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding, better HTTP streaming that supports dynamic bitrates for live video streams, and support for peer-assisted video streams (aka “Multicasting”). There’s also a new buffering system, so you can pause, rewind and fast-forward streaming video just like you’re watching it on a DVR (as long as the provider is allowing for it).

There’s no mention here of support for the new WebM video format, which Google, Opera and Mozilla launched last month to serve as an open alternative to H.264. But Adobe has pledged support for WebM in Flash Player, so hopefully we’ll see it sooner rather than later.

However, Flash Player 10.1 does support multi-touch input surfaces, one of Steve Jobs’ sticking points in his “Thoughts on Flash” essay about why Apple isn’t supporting the technology. Multi-touch capability isn’t likely to change Apple’s mind about inviting Flash to the table, but this feature will be a huge boon to those Android tablets that are supposed to be showing up any day now to kill the iPad.

This is obviously a huge release for Adobe, as it comes at a time when the company is under attack for its platform’s pitfalls. So, why the weak-sounding 10.1 numbering, which gives the impression that it’s just an incremental upgrade? Wouldn’t it have been better if they had called it Flash Player 11 since there’s so much new here?

We can save the “This Flash Goes to 11″ headline for the next time around.

Another bit of Adobe software got an update today: AIR. We’ll have more on that later.

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Review: Vizio VBR200W Blu-ray player


This unit offers most of what you’d want in a multimedia Blu-ray player, and it does so at a reasonable price; but its design and its handling of DVD upscaling miss the mark.




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Adobe Flash Player for Android Platform


Android users can finally give out shrieks of joy. Not because the Android phone is great, but because it just got BETTER. Adobe Flash has finally arrived on the Android platform. Here’s a snub to the iPhone right in its face. Adobe has finally released Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for the Android platform and things have never looked better before.

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Android Phone

The release of the Flash player for the Android platform can be the result of the tensions escalating between Adobe and Apple. Since Apple has straight away declined the usage of the Flash in its devices and gadgets, due to the claim of it being high resource hog and not secure enough. The release of the Adobe Flash Player for Android coincides with the Google’s release of the Android’s 2.2 (FroYo) at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco.

The Flash Player version 10.1 was completely overhauled and redesigned from scratch for the Android platform specifically. The player was designed such that it would support various mobile device inputs and at the same time optimize performance and overall battery throughput. Just to prove Apple’s allegations of Flash not being able to support multi-touch gestures and the fancy stuff that Apple likes to implement in it’s devices, Adobe seems to have gone the extra mile to make sure that the Flash player for the Android platform supports Multi-touch, various gestures, Smart Zooming, Accelerometer Inputs, and much more that basically differentiates the smart phone from the desktops.

Android with Flash

Android with Flash

Adobe Flash 10.1 seems to be quite serious regarding its performance. It has incorporated hardware acceleration with H.264 video decoding, Sleep Mode (which slows down the Flash Player, incase the Android phone goes into Screensaver Mode) and also an Advanced Memory Management system, which decreases RAM usage by an astounding 50%! Adobe claims that the player works with all the major chip and mobile platform players, which includes Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia, ARM and AMD).

There is a single flaw in the player at the moment. The player is supported on the Android OS 2.2 and above only. Which makes the older model Android phones won’t be supporting the Flash player anytime soon. Adobe Flash player’s performance cannot be quite understated as yet, simply because the release of the Flash Player 10.1 for the Android platform has created a major significance over the last few months only because of the basic reason of Apple’s ban of the Flash Player over the iPhone and the iPad devices. Apple wanted to bar any kind of relationship with Adobe. Many say that Apple may be working on an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Player, which would be its own proprietary software, forcing all the users to use their development kits to build applications for the iPhone or iTouch or even the iPad.

Due to the Apple’s decision to stay away from Flash, it has created huge rifts over the developers, whether they should completely leave Flash in place of HTML5. Only time will tell what comes out at the end.

Here’s a video showing the Working of the Adobe Flash Player for the Android Platform:

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Review: Sony BDP-S570 Blu-ray player


The Sony BDP-S570 looks great on paper, but its on-screen results in our tests were mixed.




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Adobe Intros Flash Player 10.1 Pre-Beta for Android


Adobe Intros Flash Player 10.1 Pre-Beta for Android
Today Adobe announced the availability of Flash Player 10.1 pre-beta for the Android platform. The new Flash Player reviewer beta works on devices running Android 2.2 Froyo and up. The player has been built into the browser, and allows … (follow link to read)

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Adobe Revamps Flash Player for Netbooks, P2P, Private Browsing


Adobe has released the first beta for Flash 10.1, the next major milestone for the Flash Player plugin.

Flash 10.1 is an important update not just for its enhanced speed and new features, but also for Adobe to show that there is in fact still a place for Flash on the web.

Flash’s ubiquity as the solution for web video and animations has been challenged recently; first by HTML5, which gives developers a standardized way to embed audio, video and animation without resorting to Flash, and also by Apple’s decision to ban Flash from its iPhone/iPad platform.

While we expect HTML5 to slowly but surely replace Flash for common tasks like web audio and video, the plugin still offers many features HTML5 doesn’t and Flash 10.1 builds on those strengths with several new features.

The two most interesting features for web developers are the new priority tag in the Flash HTML embed code and the peer-assisted networking features.

The priority tag is especially helpful for speeding up page load times on netbooks and mobile devices since it allows developers to lower the priority of a Flash movie. Set the priority tag to something low and your Flash movie won’t try to load until the rest of the page is already finished. That means faster page load times and no waiting around for large Flash movies before you see the surrounding content.

The peer-assisted networking builds on Flash’s existing P2P capabilities to offer peer-based streaming media — think BitTorrent in your Flash player. However, don’t look for Flash-based torrent clients, what’s more likely are browser-based VOIP apps, better chat features in Flash games, improved conferencing applications and possibly even P2P radio streaming.

Other new features available in Flash 10.1 include support for the host browser’s “private browsing” mode (Flash won’t accept cookies or other local objects when you’re in “private” mode), a new accelerometer class (don’t even think about using it for the iPhone), hardware video decoding, much better performance and more.

For full details on everything that’s new, be sure to check out the release notes.

For now Flash 10.1 is a beta release, so it’s a bit soon to start using the new features in the wild. But if you’d like to test them out, head over to the Adobe Labs download page and grab a copy (be sure to use the uninstaller to delete your existing Flash Player before you install the new version). The updated Flash for Mobile client will reportedly be arriving later in 2010.

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Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Android Testers Wanted


Android Adobe Flasher Player 10.1In a recent update on their Flash blog, Adobe have announced that they’re opening sign-ups for beta testing of the Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe Air 2.0 app for Android.

To be one of the first to test the Flash apps you’ll have to head on over to their blog and register your details.

In the blog posting Adobe’s Adobe’s Lee Brimelow said that:

“We just started the private betas and we are really looking forward to getting these technologies into your hands as soon as possible. There are going to be so many interesting things that you will be able to do on Android and there are also going to be many new skills that (developers) will need to learn, especially if you are new to mobile design”.

There are currently two different sign-up pages for Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe Air 2.0, so if you’d like to trial them both you’ll have to submit your details twice.

Still no announcement on when we can expect the official release, but we imagine it can’t be far off now.

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Beta Test This! Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR for Android


It was only a few days ago when we posted an article that had Adobe’s CEO talking about Android users seeing Flash later this year.  Starting immediately, users can sign up to get their hands on a beta for both Adobe’s Flash Player and AIR 2.0 for Android.  In a blog posted yesterday over on The Flash Blog, Lee Brimelow mentioned that the company has “just started the private betas and we are really looking forward to getting these technologies into your hands as soon as possible.”  As of right now there are no dates to share with anyone but we get the feeling things are starting to shift into a higher gear.  According to Android Police, we could be seeing both the beta release and the first signs of Froyo in May.  Perhaps something around Google I/O?

If you are interested, here are the links to each beta program:

Sign up page for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta for Android

Sign up page for Adobe AIR for Android Beta

Check out the video below which shows Flash on a variety of devices including a few Android phones (Nexus One, Droid).  There’s also a fantastic looking Dell tablet that really catches our eye.  Can we have some more details on that please!?

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Multitalented Blu-ray Player Isn’t Future-Proof


Product: BD590 Network Blu-ray Player

Manufacturer: LG

Wired Rating: 7

The standalone Blu-ray player is a knuckle-dragging troglodyte just a hair away from extinction.

LG knew this was the case when it updated its flagship BD590. Though 3-D capabilities are MIA, video download services, web content and even disc-ripping make this player a truly evolved gadget.

As a Blu-ray player, the BD590 offers exactly what you’d expect. Playing our 10th Anniversary edition of Fight Club (I am Jack’s planned obsolescence) yielded a fantastically crisp picture and great audio, courtesy of the unit’s Dolby TrueHD and DTS support.

When we tired of our disc collection, we switched over to Netflix to stream old episodes of Rescue Me and to Vudu to rent new releases like Sherlock Holmes. Mood music, slideshows and video podcasts are covered by Pandora, Picasa and YouTube respectively.

Being able to wander through these services while discovering new content had an interesting affect on the way we consumed media: Rather than merely bringing discs to the BD590 for playback, we found ourselves firing it up for content search and discovery. Catering to exploratory use is easily the device’s smartest function.

What’s more intriguing — though somewhat less useful — is the player’s ability to rip CDs and store them on its hard drive. Like most gadget freaks, we were excited to learn that the BD590 was shipping with a hard drive and the ability to rip and store content. And, like most, we crumpled with defeat upon learning that it won’t rip Blu-rays or even DVDs.

To be fair, this setback is largely addressed by remembering these two counterpoints: First, at 250 GB, the BD590 hard drive was never meant to be an HD-video-storing powerhouse. And second, you can still dump ripped video content onto the hard drive over USB or Ethernet.

If you can learn to live with this limitation (or at least work around it), then there’s a lot to love about the BD590. The disc-ripping/library management interface is easy to use, offers high-quality audio formats and fills track metadata using the Gracenote service.

Unfortunately, it’s also wicked expensive. For $10 less, consumers can buy a PS3, which also plays Blu-rays, streams Netflix, rents movies, rips CDs — and plays top-tier video games. Also, the PS3 is slated to get a firmware upgrade that will add 3-D video support over the summer, which is something the BD590 will probably never receive.

If you’re looking for a truly forward-thinking, all-in-one movie/music/web device, there are better options out there. But if you’re searching for a dedicated Blu-ray player with good online video chops, the BD590 is worth consideration (though you might want to wait for LG to cut the price a bit).

WIRED Spruces up a ho-hum product with digital media verve. Surprisingly slim and quiet (even with the HDD). Lossless ripping allows high-def music playback. Integrated 802.11n wireless connectivity delivers fast, crisp content across the network. Plays back locally-stored MKV, DivX , H.264 and MPEG-4 video files like a champ.

TIRED Just shy of being competitively priced. Clunky menus and occasionally laggy interface. Lack of 3-D shortens its potential shelf life.

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TiVo’s Series 4 Is Jacked-Up Home Entertainment Power Player


Product: Series 4 Premier XL

Manufacturer: TiVo

Wired Rating: 8

The stakes for TiVo’s new Series 4 are ridiculously high.

A lot has changed since TiVo premiered its Series 3 DVR in 2006. Netflix, Amazon and Blockbuster are now set-top players, and even Apple is strong-arming into entertainment centers.

So TiVo fans will no doubt cheer this entertainment powerhouse’s knockout blows: Massive storage, internet video streaming, an improved interface and a kick-ass way to search for and find new content.

The bad news? It’s a sloppy victory. TiVo acolytes won’t mind, but others might find its rough edges a little grating.

Like the Tivo Series 3 (and HD, and HD XL), the Premier XL is a digital video recorder to its core. It boasts a terabyte of storage (enough to hold roughly 150 hours of HD content), and its dual tuners let you simultaneously record channels piped in through digital cable, antenna, CableCARD, and Verizon’s FiOS service. We chose to connect it to our 42-inch Philips LCD via HDMI, but the Premier also supports component, composite, optical and analog audio.

The Premier kicks ass when it comes to searching content. Nestled at the top of the menu screen is a new, customizable Discovery Bar that lists movies, shows and recommended web video. Though it only takes up a quarter of the screen, the feature is hugely useful for exploring new shows floating out in TV land. We got hooked on AMC’s Breaking Bad after highlighting the show’s banner and clicking through the synopsis.

Integrated tools like the Discovery Bar are rounded out with traditional forms of search. You can browse by category (new releases, most popular) and also use a keyword search. What’s most compelling about this is the breadth of results. Searching for The Office doesn’t just retrieve showtimes from the cable provider. It reveals IMDB-like data about the show and its stars, links to related YouTube content — and it presents the option of streaming through Netflix, or buying episodes from Amazon VoD or Blockbuster On Demand.

TiVo Series 4

At first we just used the Premier’s search for novelty (“Sweet, all 22 episodes of Thunder In Paradise!”). But it has more impact over time. Premier eliminates the guessing game associated with locating content. Want to take in a schlocky Sam Raimi film? All it takes is searching for Darkman, letting the Premier do its thing, and then deciding which channel or online service to watch it with. Though this setup is entirely reliant on the content libraries of TiVo’s partners, it’s an incredibly smart way to fulfill your entertainment whims easily and immediately.

The jump from search to showtime isn’t all sunshine and Technicolor rainbows, though. Whenever you purchase content from the Premier’s search results, it dumps you into the storefront of whatever service you bought it from. It’s not a deal breaker, but the sudden shift from the Premier’s glossy HD menus to the comparatively low-fi catastrophe of Blockbuster’s storefront is a salient reminder that there’s still room for improvement.

Otherwise, Tivo’s classic features are all here, like pausing and time-shifting through live broadcasts, and they run just as smoothly thanks to an upgraded dual-core processor. TiVo’s storied (and sometimes needlessly complicated) menu system also benefits from the processor bump, thanks to a redesigned user interface, a sleek HD facelift and Flash Lite.

Also falling under the “shiny and new”category is a slimmer profile, and a new menu area for add-on apps. But that menu is puzzlingly vacant: Our review unit came with little more than a run-of-the-mill weather widget.

TiVo Series 4

According to TiVo, a Pandora app is due out soon, while a partnership with the widget wonks at FrameChannel is already in the works. The promise of a robust app ecosystem (running on Flash Lite, no less) is an appetizing carrot to dangle. But for now, this sad, desolate branch of the menu reeks of missed opportunity.

As a whole, it’s lacunae like this (and the ugly transitions to third-party storefronts) that epitomize the Premier XL. Its core features are all right on target — it just has a somewhat half-finished feel to it.

If you’re a no-frills TV-archiving fiend, then this device definitely has you covered (and then some). But if you’re looking for a truly scalpel-edged, seamless, all-in-one entertainment box, the Premier falls a little short. But only a little.

WIRED Truly an HD DVR. THX-certified picture and sound. Faster processor means zippy performance, no lag. Web services aplenty: YouTube, Picasa, Rhapsody, Photobucket, and Live365. Smoking new hardware, same old service fee ($13 per month). Oldies but goodies like external storage, multiroom viewing and mobile scheduling return. Cheaper than we were expecting.

TIRED No support for cable-provided VoD, AT&T Uverse, or satellite. Moving between VoD services is full of clunk. Wireless is dongle-reliant and B/G only. Typing out titles with standard remote is annoyingly slow. Remote scheduling via web is still a confusing hassle. Cable-provider VoD content not available through the Premier. Lack of apps makes us feel like a sad panda.

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Motorola Droid Running Flash Player 10.1 Video


Flash player 10.1 Motorola DroidLast week Adobe released a demo video showing their Flash Player 10.1 software up and running on the Google Nexus One. Well this week it’s the turn of the popular Motorola Droid to receive the same Flash treatment.

In newly released footage, Adobe’s Adrian Ludwig showcases Flash Player 10.1 running well on the Droid with the Android 2.0 software.

When compared to the Nexus One and Android 2.1, the Droid’s Flash video playback does seem to stutter a little bit more than the N1, whether this is down to the 2.0 software remains to be seen.

Flash Player 10.1 is expected to be released for the Google Nexus One in the first half of 2010

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